How to Install WordPress on Remote MySQL

WordPress is an open source content management system (CMS) and popular blogging platform in the world based on PHP and MySQL platform. WordPress can be install on multiple way, either using dedicated server, virtual private server(VPS) or the cheapest way is running on shared hosting. When come to decision to run the wordpress on dedicated server or on VPS, the next question would be whether to run a web service and database service on single or multiple server. We have an option to combine it or to split it. For high performance wordpress website, i would suggest you to run web server(Apache, NGINX, Lighttpd) and database server (MySQL) on different server. Below steps should provide the basic steps how you can setup the wordpress on remote MySQL.